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title: Words can cut. — A sibling with a disability or illness, a siblin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Words can cut. Who acts: Words. A sentence of the lesson «A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left home, sentence 10

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Words can cut.

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**Who acts:** Words · **What happens:** cut

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Words), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home.lesson:10
# text = Words can cut.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	Words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | can | Words |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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